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Dr Nancy Millis

Professor Nancy Millis made significant contributions to agriculture, protection of the environment, science, medicine and engineering.

Gladys Carey

Gladys Carey worked in the Department of Botany, University of Sydney and was the author of “Botany by Observation: A text-books for Australian schools” (Angus and Robertson 1941).

Jennifer Gardner was Curator of the Waite Arboretum at the University of Adelaide from 1986 to 2017. During this time she increased its collection of trees to over 2,200 species, improved public access, and established the Friends of the Waite Arboretum in 1994.

Mary Locke

Irish divorcee, WWI hospital worker and company director

Hilary Jolly

Australian freshwater biologist whose research focused on the taxonomy and ecology of planktonic crustaceans, the vertical migratory behaviour of plankton and the physics and chemistry of lakes.

Effie Wyllie Best

Effie Wyllie Best worked in the Zoology Department at the University of Adelaide for at least six years and then went on to teach at the Adelaide Kindergarten Training College and at Girton College.

Dr Jean Youatt

Jean Youatt lectured in the Department of Chemistry at Monash University from 1962 until her retirement in 1990, when she moved to the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Harriet Williams Russell Strong

In 1883, Harriet Williams Russell Strong—a graduate of Miss Mary Atkin’s Young Ladies Seminary, mother of four, and recent widow—became the sole owner of a California ranch on the brink of financial ruin. Her will to learn saved her ranch and led to several patents. Later, her advocacy to Congress would forever change how water is managed in the western United States.